As part of the Obama Administration's goal of reducing waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have revised and improved their calculations of Medicare fee-for-service error…
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Akasia Lee of New Orleans was sentenced in federal court to five years in prison and to pay nearly $5 million in restitution for her role in the conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, according to a release from the U.S.…
Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, N.J., has agreed to pay the United States $3.02 million to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.
The Mississippi State Department of Health has recommended that Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare's plan to $137 million, 100-bed hospital in Olive Branch, Miss., is approved, according to a report by the Desoto Times-Tribune.
Eight prescription drug makers have agreed to pay $4.3 million to settle allegations that they purposefully reported false and inflated drug prices, which serve as the basis for Medicaid reimbursements paid by taxpayers, according to an Iowa Office of the…
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Ronald Poulin, MD, a hematology and oncology specialist in Virginia Beach, Va., was found guilty of 28 counts, which included healthcare fraud, altering records and making false statements, for his role in a $1.2 million scheme to defraud Medicare and…
Oklahoma's new malpractice reforms for physicians went into effect on Nov. 1, according to a release from the Oklahoma Hospital Association.
Initial construction on a 12-bed joint replacement hospital in Indio, Calif., has been halted due to a lawsuit filed by the local full-service hospital, John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, according to a report by the Desert Sun.
RetireSafe, which represents 400,000 senior citizen supporters across America, called on the U.S. House of Representatives to stop the proposed rationing of high-quality hospital care to Medicare patients and to turnover proposed limits on physician-owned hospitals, according to a RetireSafe…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called on the state legislature to require greater disclosure of adverse events in hospitals and for fines against hospitals that violate the law, according to a report by the Hartford Courant.